SERVIR Global presented with 2018 Interagency Partnership Award

On November 14, 2018, the Mid-Atlantic Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) presented NASA and USAID with the 2018 Interagency Partnership award, honoring the SERVIR program for outstanding technology transfer achievements. The award is given to organizations demonstrating excellence in the process of transferring technology through multiple federal science agencies.

The SERVIR program, a joint initiative of NASA and USAID, works with regional organizations worldwide to help developing countries use data from Earth-observing satellites and geospatial technologies to address critical challenges in food security, water resources, weather and climate, land use, and natural disasters.

Lawrence Friedl of NASA and Carrie Stokes of USAID  accept the 2018 Interagency Partnership Award.

Lawrence Friedl, Director of Applied Sciences in the Earth Science Division of NASA, and Carrie Stokes, Chief Geographer and Director of the GeoCenter of USAID, accepted the award for SERVIR in Rockville, Maryland, at the Mid-Atlantic Federal Laboratory Consortium Meeting and Industry Day.

SERVIR is active in over 45 countries and has trained more than 4,000 individuals in ‘connecting space to village’ through the use of satellite data-based technology. Thanks to more than ten years of successful collaboration between NASA and USAID, the tools, products, and services provided by SERVIR are currently improving awareness, increasing access to information, and supporting analyses to help people around the world. SERVIR’s global impact continues to expand, as more officials and decision-makers use the program’s data to make more informed decisions.

Bridging gaps between federal agencies is a core objective of the FLC, an organization dedicated to improving technology transfer between federal labs. The Mid-Atlantic Region of the FLC is comprised of over 100 federal laboratories and over 350 federal facilities. Nationally, the FLC’s mission is to promote, facilitate, and educate federal technology transfer among its member labs and institutions so they can easily reach their commercialization goals while creating social and economic impact with innovative new technologies.